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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

P. MIHAN, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO P. MIHAN & G. DAVIS, OF SAME PLAOE.

A EG-G'-BEATER.

Specfication of Letters Patent No. 19,738, dated March 23, 1858.

H, which is confined to the plate, in any Be it known that I, PAtrRron MIHAN, of obvious and suitable manner.

Boston, in the county of Snfoll: and Com- I is a handle made of wire and soldered to monwealth of Massachusetts, have. invented i G, as seen in the drawing.

a new and useful Improvement in The dotted lines, 1, 2, 3, 4, represent the Beaters; and I do he'rebj7 declare that the Vessel (tin, earthern, or whatever it may following is a full, clear, and eXact descripbe) into which the eggs to be beaten. are

tion of the construction and operation of the broken. It ma;7 be of such dimensions that same, reference being had to the accomthe plate, A, will just fit on it, like the cover panying drawing, forming a part of these of a pail, the piece C coming close to its botspecifications. tom, and the wires, D D, close to its side To enable others sltilled in. the art to make or any ressel-such as a quart-pot, tumbler,

and use my invention, I will now proceed or mug may be used at pleasure, the opto describe its construction and operation. erator holding the plate, in one hand and The drawing represents a perspective View Vibrating the handle I, with the other.

of the machine, in which- As the sector' pinion, G, is so much larger A is a circular plate of tin or other suitthan E, it is obvious that by Yibrating the able material, the edge of which is turned handle, I. a little distance, a rapid motion down at right angles with the surface, So as will be given to the shaft, B; and that by to give sufficient stiffness to the plate, and means of the beaters, D, (Z, striling the egg also render it better adapted for resting on so rapidly first in one direction and then in the top of the Vessel in which the eggs are the opposite, the whole mass will be comto be beaten. The diameter of this plate is pletel)7 cut and beaten, in a comparatively about four inches, but may, of course, be trifling period of time. t is also evident greater or less, if desired. that the machine is useful for mixing, and

B is a. tinned wire about three sixteenths stirring, liquids of any kind; and that, of an inch in diameter and six inches in when sufficiently large, it will work excellength, passing through a hole in the center lently well as a churn.

of the plate A. To the lower part of B are lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire soldered a metallic foot-piece, O, and wires, to secure by Letters Patent, is-

D and (Z, as seen in the fignre. The beating apparatus constructed and E is a pinion fast to the wire shaft, B. Operating substantially as described, in com- F is a strip of metal bent as seen in the bination with the portable plate, or cover,

drawing,-the lower extremity being sol- A, so that it may be either held in the opdered to the plate A, while the upper, is fureratorls hand, or placed on the top of a To all whom tt may concern: I

nished with a hole to receive the end of B, vessel. which is made smaller so as to form a shoul- W T der. The design of F is to prevent the shaft i TRIC MIHD from moving laterally, or up and down. VVitnesses:

Gr is the sector of a larger pinlon, engag- Gro. H. SMITH, ing with E, and turnlng freely on the aXle, N. Airns. 

